Hi,
The Galaxy S III with Samsung's ICS 4.0.4 copies _all_ the contacts from Google to the phone, including everyone from Google+ circles.
While it's relatively easy to configure the Samsung contacts/phone app to filter only for "My Contacts" part of Google contacts, this does not prevent it from poisoning my car's phone book with 200+ irrelevant contacts when I Bluetooth-sync my phone to my car.
Does anyone know if this is a bug in Android or if it's a result of modifications done by Samsung?
And is there ANY way to prevent the non-wanted Google-contacts from showing up on the phone in the first place? (or for instance decide in a similar fashion to the contacts app which groups should be synchronized over bluetooth)
I'm sure I'm not the first having run into this problem - what have you others done? Disabled Google+ altogether? I'm sure that can't have been Google's intention
Thanks in advance for any insight!
-y1
Yalla-One said:
Hi,
The Galaxy S III with Samsung's ICS 4.0.4 copies _all_ the contacts from Google to the phone, including everyone from Google+ circles.
While it's relatively easy to configure the Samsung contacts/phone app to filter only for "My Contacts" part of Google contacts, this does not prevent it from poisoning my car's phone book with 200+ irrelevant contacts when I Bluetooth-sync my phone to my car.
Does anyone know if this is a bug in Android or if it's a result of modifications done by Samsung?
And is there ANY way to prevent the non-wanted Google-contacts from showing up on the phone in the first place? (or for instance decide in a similar fashion to the contacts app which groups should be synchronized over bluetooth)
I'm sure I'm not the first having run into this problem - what have you others done? Disabled Google+ altogether? I'm sure that can't have been Google's intention
Thanks in advance for any insight!
-y1
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contacts- menu-accounts and turn off accounts and sync
I'm fairly certain it's Google plus putting them in there and not the contacts app. I disabled the Google plus option to sync with my contacts and never had then appear in there.
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rizky77 said:
contacts- menu-accounts and turn off accounts and sync
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Yes - the only problem here is that turns off ALL the google contacts, both the ones populated from Google+ and the ones in my contact list. In previous versions there was a sub-menu under the accounts where one could choose WHICH groups under the Google account to sync. Now it grabs all - including the Google+ contacts
dr.m0x said:
I'm fairly certain it's Google plus putting them in there and not the contacts app. I disabled the Google plus option to sync with my contacts and never had then appear in there.
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Hmm - I too have disabled Google+ to sync with my contacts, but when I go to Gmail and list contacts there, all my Google+ circles are added to my contacts (just shown at a lower section). So even with de-installing Google+ on my phone, I still get the google+ contacts in my phone app.
However, when I uncircle a few persons from Google+ (from web), they disappear from Gmail contacts, and then subsequently disappear from Samsung's telephone app as well. Hence I still believe it's coming from G+ via contacts, and not the other way around..
It also seems to import all the people's email addresses that I have ever emailed from Gmail's "save sent contact list" which gives quite a few blank fields in the car phone book. These are hidden in the phone since I don't display contacts without phone numbers.
Question. If I turn off autosync for Whatsapp will it stop being able to send and recieve messages?
You will be able to send and receive messages if autosync is off.
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Then what does autosync do for Whatsapp?
viiv said:
Then what does autosync do for Whatsapp?
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It's for contacts syncing.
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gm007 said:
It's for contacts syncing.
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I stopped Whatsapp auto-sync but it keeps turning back on again (not immediately though). I believe it was re-enabled by Whatsapp background service.
Other than uninstalling the app, how do I disable Whatsapp auto-sync and make it stay that way?
Why would you disable it in first place?
I see no reason to becasue it only uses very little data I believe, maybe even none.
And it is very useful, because i you disable it, whatsapp won't be able to see wether your contacts have whatsapp or not.
I would just leave it enabled
Whatsapp uses about 20k a day just syncing. That's about 600k a month. This may not be much in the grand scheme of things but it's 600k more than necessary. And I don't like app's phoning home when it's not necessary.
I don't sit around adding new phone contacts every 5 minutes and I'm quite happy to manually sync when I need to (once in a blue moon). If it wasn't for gmail I'd have auto-sync turned off.
The only way I can think of doing this is to hack the apk and remove the write sync permissions... but then you'd have to do that for every update.
I've used apktool to remove the sync write permissions from whatsapp and so far it seems to be working ok; Still need to check it's effects on battery though.
If anybody wants to try this you can find instructions and tools here.
You'll need to make 2 versions of the apk:
The first version is unchanged but is needed so that the signatures match with the second version. You should uninstall the original version completely then install the first version so that the sync entry is created for whatsapp.
For the second version you need to edit the manifest file and remove the line that gives sync write permissions. This version needs to be installed over the top of the first so that the sync entry for whatsapp is already created. You can do this through adb with the command 'adb install -r yourwhatsapp.apk'.
Whats app Sync with Gmail
Whats app Sync with Gmail.
use SmsBackup+ . it is very strong and free apps to sync and backup every minute of sms msg, contact, call log, call log with calender backup.
this is the world first app that have very special feature to backup every minute of Watsapp messages from mobile to your gmail account under the whatsapp tag.
Prashant Kumar [email protected]
goldenmaths said:
Whats app Sync with Gmail.
use SmsBackup+ . it is very strong and free apps to sync and backup every minute of sms msg, contact, call log, call log with calender backup.
this is the world first app that have very special feature to backup every minute of Watsapp messages from mobile to your gmail account under the whatsapp tag.
Prashant Kumar [email protected]
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Plz stop with this Promotion thing. You are breaking the rules.
If your app is so very useful it will automatically get featured on XDA.
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WA sync causing problems with large number of contacts on GT-i9000
TiesB said:
Why would you disable it in first place?
I see no reason to becasue it only uses very little data I believe, maybe even none.
And it is very useful, because i you disable it, whatsapp won't be able to see wether your contacts have whatsapp or not.
I would just leave it enabled
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After much monitoring of my good old Galaxy S GT-I9000 on 2.3.6 XXJW4 and its countless freezes and auto reboots I realised the culprit seemed to be WhatsApp auto syncing address book to its servers.
I reached this conclusion after (i) freezing WhatsApp and seeing the problem disappear and (ii) not freezing WhatsApp but deleting full address book and the problem seemingly disappearing as well.
I 'only' have 2,700 contacts and I uploaded them onto the phone via Google Sync, importing the Outlook file into the Gmail account (and using it to deduplicate contacts etc).
I have tried both deleting the WhatsApp autosync account from the Account list on the phone and also manually disabling WA autosync but (i) the account will pop back up every time after some minutes, autosync enabled and all and (ii) autosync will turn itself back on automatically as well.
I have indeed disabled 'show hidden contacts' in WA settings to no avail (if purposefully enabling it, the Account and / or autosync seemed to come back instantly, together with the 'syncing' notification on the status bar).
I am simultaneously using Telegram and BBM as well as Facebook messaging and Twitter and it is only WhatsApp wreaking havoc with my phone.
I would be very interested to know if anyone else has experienced the same issue?
Cheers
goncal said:
After much monitoring of my good old Galaxy S GT-I9000 on 2.3.6 XXJW4 and its countless freezes and auto reboots I realised the culprit seemed to be WhatsApp auto syncing address book to its servers.
I reached this conclusion after (i) freezing WhatsApp and seeing the problem disappear and (ii) not freezing WhatsApp but deleting full address book and the problem seemingly disappearing as well.
I 'only' have 2,700 contacts and I uploaded them onto the phone via Google Sync, importing the Outlook file into the Gmail account (and using it to deduplicate contacts etc).
I have tried both deleting the WhatsApp autosync account from the Account list on the phone and also manually disabling WA autosync but (i) the account will pop back up every time after some minutes, autosync enabled and all and (ii) autosync will turn itself back on automatically as well.
I have indeed disabled 'show hidden contacts' in WA settings to no avail (if purposefully enabling it, the Account and / or autosync seemed to come back instantly, together with the 'syncing' notification on the status bar).
I am simultaneously using Telegram and BBM as well as Facebook messaging and Twitter and it is only WhatsApp wreaking havoc with my phone.
I would be very interested to know if anyone else has experienced the same issue?
Cheers
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I'm also experiencing the same problem. Auto sync always turns itself back on. I hate it when apps don't obey my command.
The main reason why I don't want autosync is because Android is powerless against so-called 'read only contacts' it can only offer to hide them instead of deleting them.
If I decide to delete a contact which happens to also be tied to whatsapp, Android can only hide the contact (and I don't want that).
I recently got to know an app called whatsapp+ but I don't know if it solves this problem.
Apparently when you back up user apps through Titanium, sometimes this can cause notification issues. This is what I did with Facebook to get notifications to start functioning again. Your mileage may vary, but hopefully this will assist someone.
Go to Applications-Facebook (or app which is causing issues)
Clear data
Force stop
****This is Facebook specific****
Go to Accounts
Click Facebook
Remove account
Go back to Accounts
Click Sync Apps w/Facebook
Remove account
****End of Facebook specific instructions****
Uninstall FB (or app which is causing issues)
Use your folder explorer and remove everything that contains Facebook (or app which is causing issues)
****This is Facebook specific****
Go to web Facebook-Account settings-Security
Remove Active Sessions
Remove all Recognized Devices
Remove account
****End of Facebook specific instructions****
Reinstall App
****This is Facebook specific****
Go to Accounts-Add Account-Facebook
Log in
You should get a prompt in the notification area to sync apps
Sync apps
Remove account
****End of Facebook specific instructions****
Notifications should work
HI
Is there a list of apps tested to be safe/unsafe for hibernating?
Sometimes it's not sure even if the app has GCM blue cloud icon on the right.
Has anybody experienced problems with greenifying Pushbullet app? (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pushbullet.android)
Older Greenify client reported unable to hibernate this app (supporting GCM)
Now it hibernates (Greenify guessinlgy improved?) but I experience problems with random unlinking from Google account and losing access to notifications). Can anybody confirm.......
I'm running Nougat on a BV8000 (huge regret), and I was using data saver today because i was roaming in the US. My Canadian carrier gives me 1 GB of US data per month. I have a work profile on the phone.
While we were in the US, Android OS consumed 500 MB of data. The only apps that were granted unrestricted access were:
Personal profile
Calendar
Find my device
Google fit
Gmail
Google search
Google Calendar Sync
Google Play Services
Hangouts
IFTTT
Keep notes
Android Messages
Facebook messenger
Tile
Toodledo
Whatsapp
Work Profile
Gmail
Google search
Hangouts
Keep notes
TextNow
Google Play Services
Whatsapp Business
When I first noticed the problem, after the first 200 MB or so, I also enabled datally and blocked access to Android OS. Despite this, the number kept going up. When I click on Android OS under App data usage, I get a list of about 20 apps whose usage are included under Android OS usage. I went through those apps individually under the "Apps" menu in settings and each had the same data usage, a few hundred kb - not remotely enough to add up to 500 MB.
I've captured bug reports (with bug cache set to 16 mb), but I don't know what I'm looking for or if it is even in there. Do Android bug reports include information about which apps were sending/receiving data? If not, is there something else I can do on an unrooted (root not an option) phone to capture either which apps are sending/receiving despite data saver, or what IP addresses are being accessed so I can try to trace back? I also have screenshots of the list of apps included under "Android OS" if that would be helpful.